While in different hands (Orson Welles's, for instance) these radical themes could have inspired more hallucinatory, probing, and inward images, Huston nonetheless evokes an apt sense of wonder, admiration, and awe.
Freud: The Secret Passion
Alone he fought against his own dark passions...
1962 · 2h 20m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
John Huston
Overview
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Director and cast
- John Huston Director
- Montgomery Clift as Sigmund Freud
- Susannah York as Cecily Koertner
- Larry Parks as le docteur Joseph Breuer
- Susan Kohner as Martha Freud
- Fernand Ledoux as le professeur Jean-Martin Charcot
- Eileen Herlie as Frau Ida Koertner
- David McCallum as Carl von Schlossen
- Rosalie Crutchley as Frau Freud
- David Kossoff as Jacob Freud
- Joseph Fürst as Herr Jacob Koertner
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